CrossPurpose Grand Opening Brings Together Community

Local Artists Featured throughout Heart-of-Denver Facility

March 11, 2019
written by: Audrey Wilson

This past Sunday, CrossPurpose officially opened its doors alongside Providence Bible Church. While classes for the non-profit have been going on for a couple weeks, the grand opening marked the official opening for the community. We joined in on the festivities to celebrate! Take a peek at the photos to see how the space turned out.

CrossPurpose Together Cafe. Local artist. Photo courtesy of Snyder Building Construction

The grand opening culminated years of growth and expansion for CrossPurpose and serves as an important milestone for the organization’s unique and important work of abolishing relational, economic, and spiritual poverty through career and community development in Denver.

Aligned with its mission, CrossPurpose wanted to open a headquarters that was designed in community. The 56 walls display their values through quotations, verses, and custom community art. Chief Executive Officer Jason Janz and his team were intentional at all phases of the design process to feature diverse voices, input and leadership for the overall design aesthetic, layout and artwork. As a place-based organization, all of the art is from Denver-based artists. The new facility displays the art of inmates, historic residents, and children.

“We are thrilled to provide a place for the voices of our neighborhood artists to be seen and heard,” said Jason Janz, chief executive officer of CrossPurpose.

On the construction side, this 16,000 square-foot, tenant improvement project included new glass-enclosed offices featuring all DIRTT systems, spacious classrooms, a community café, and airy sanctuary. Both café and sanctuary show off beautiful wood cloud ceiling elements.

Matt Redick was the senior project manager on the job and Johnny Jones took the reins as superintendent. Together they truly delivered a wonderful space in collaboration with our friends at CrossPurpose. In Matt’s words, “It was an absolute pleasure working alongside the CrossPurpose team on this project. There’s a great deal of satisfaction for us bringing new life to a building that will allow this wonderful organization to serve the community.”

The interior remodel was developed by Principal Architect Michelle Miller, AIA, Interior Designer Annie Pratt, and 3D Graphics and Production Lead Ron Sieh of Jigsaw Design (www.jigsawdesignllc.com). Michelle recognized early on “the team at Cross Purpose had a clear vision for a space that was inviting and spoke to the culture and heritage of the people in the NE Denver community, whose lives are being benefited by the services that the non-profit provides. We worked closely with them to make this vision a reality through the use of color, pattern, texture and art.”

CrossPurpose art wall. Various local artists. Photo courtesy of Snyder Building Construction

We love working with businesses and nonprofits alike who are dedicated to building up our Denver community. We’re looking forward to what great things are in store for CrossPurpose.

We are excited to share that David Torres is on board as our newest project manager. He will be leading jobs in all sectors of our portfolio from tenant improvement to ground-up, including restaurant, retail, office, metal buildings, and historic renovations.

David Torres, Project Manager

David earned his Bachelor of Science in Structural Engineering from Cal Poly Pomona in Pomona, California. He’s a pretty smart cookie. Since then, he’s been managing projects with excellence for 11 years.

His approach to working with clients? “Be trustworthy, be persistent, lead by example, and trust the abilities of others,” he told us. We think that’s a pretty great strategy!

David has bid, estimated and managed the gamut construction projects ranging from $25,000 to $15,000,000.

Most notably, he bid and managed the historic renovation of an existing multi-story building that was originally built in 1888. The renovation included dropping the basement ten feet to allow for a future restaurant tenant, a complete structural retrofit and a new rooftop bar & events center. He also bid and managed a 25,000 square-foot, ground-up construction project for the Disney Archive Library—a new place to house and archive old Disney cartoon and movie reels. Other past projects include multiple projects at Disney Resorts, Pixar executive housing, Shell and Chevron gas stations, Discount Tire shops, full service restaurants, Lululemon Athletica yoga retail locations, multi-family mixed-use buildings, Wal-Marts, schools, churches and architecture offices.

When he’s not busy working, you’ll find him spending time outdoors with his wife or hunting with his bird dogs Chester and Reba.

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